by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2025 | Read
It’s the year of our Gozer-Lord 2025 and I have not had an official taste of Hi-C Ecto Cooler in over nine years. The drought of the spectral, citrus-y nectar is real and there are no heroes in the Coca Cola company advocating for the nerd masses that would love...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 25, 2025 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a little while since I sat down and dissected an awesome pop culture bedroom so I thought I’d dive back in by taking a closer look at Josh Baskin’s childhood room in the 1988 movie Big. First off I love this movie to death, and love all...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 20, 2025 | Read
Finding myself with a day off from work, it’s a winter wonderland outside, and I’m watching my two nutty kids, so it seems like a good day to chill out and do some nostalgic upkeep on some of my collections. One of my prized collections are the complete...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 16, 2025 | Read
I can’t remember exactly where I first heard this concept, but there is idea of a “lifecycle” to collecting that I find intriguing. The first part of the notion is that for any collector there is a set time-frame that surrounds their formative years...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 11, 2024 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This is a classic piece I wrote back in 2011 for my defunct site Branded in the 80s that I felt like sharing again. The post was supposed to consider and defend why I choose to more or less stick to covering 80s era stuff when I was writing for Branded. Sure, 80s was...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 26, 2024 | Read
When I look back at my life to when pivotal changes occurred, moments that changed the trajectory I would go on in my hobbies and obsessions, not many are more important than the mundane act of picking up a Transformers: The Movie Diamond sticker collector’s...
